5 hours ago
In two loans Owen Goodman has been rated very highly indeed. If he is rubbish for you it is an issue you need to address. Why can't he do it for you? The football isn't that much better! Is he unhappy in the north? Does he perhaps have an issue with his defence or a particular player in the squad? Is someone going out of their way to point out his mistakes, making him even more conscious of them, and thus making them more likely to happen? How is his relationship with Lee Nicholls? If there is a problem it is worth knowing the source, because it might well happen again to another loanee if it is not addressed. It is not so long ago that you had a Man City loanee centre back who could do nothing right for you. Why? And yes, why is it that Castledine is shining and showing all the ability he had before he hit injury problems at Chelsea and Goodman failing?
I say this because years ago I was rated the best keeper in the many divisions of the Sunday League in Chesterfield. I moved to another team, where the centre back and captain made it very obvious he didn't like me or rate me (on no evidence at all). It was the same league, the same opposition, I was behind a better team and I couldn't play for them at all. Whatever I did I was made to feel inadequate .... but the team manager didn't know anything about it. In a season of misery every Saturday I played well, every Sunday was the nightmare before the roast beef and Yorkshires
Playing in goal can be as lonely as it can be thrilling. You get time to think and any mental weaknesses get magnified. Goodman needs some slack cutting and someone to get to the root of it, or it might destroy a promising career. It is true Lee Nicholls is still a decent goalie, but with my fairest head on I could not put Chapman in anywhere near the same league as Owen Goodman. He may have arrived in Huddersfield over-rated, but now he is experiencing absolutely the opposite experience.
And I've just seen on my laptop that Huddersfield is fast becoming a ghost town. What is going on? To a place of which I'm fond! Halifax is thriving Huddersfield is the pits, can it be true?
I say this because years ago I was rated the best keeper in the many divisions of the Sunday League in Chesterfield. I moved to another team, where the centre back and captain made it very obvious he didn't like me or rate me (on no evidence at all). It was the same league, the same opposition, I was behind a better team and I couldn't play for them at all. Whatever I did I was made to feel inadequate .... but the team manager didn't know anything about it. In a season of misery every Saturday I played well, every Sunday was the nightmare before the roast beef and Yorkshires
Playing in goal can be as lonely as it can be thrilling. You get time to think and any mental weaknesses get magnified. Goodman needs some slack cutting and someone to get to the root of it, or it might destroy a promising career. It is true Lee Nicholls is still a decent goalie, but with my fairest head on I could not put Chapman in anywhere near the same league as Owen Goodman. He may have arrived in Huddersfield over-rated, but now he is experiencing absolutely the opposite experience.
And I've just seen on my laptop that Huddersfield is fast becoming a ghost town. What is going on? To a place of which I'm fond! Halifax is thriving Huddersfield is the pits, can it be true?